Numbers and I can never agree,
And logic supposes they are smarter than me.
Two plus two equals four, every time, don't you see?
Even though what I need is a five or a three!
When balancing my checkbook invariably,
I'm bound by the rules, locked in by decree.
I just can't change the numbers to satisfy me,
Though "out" exceeds "in" to quite a degree.
How handy, how dandy, mathematics would be,
If two hundred dollars could be made into three!
But, I can't bend the rules, treat them easy and free,
So numbers and I can never agree.
Donovan Baldwin